Drinking-cup for stock



B. A. BELLING.

DRINKING CUP FOR STOCK.

APPLICATION FILED mus. 19w.

Patented J 11110 29, 19 20.'

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B. A. BELLING. DRI NKINQ CUP FOR STOCKQ APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6, 1919.

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Patentd June 29, '1920.

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-UNITED STA'ILES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNARD A. BELLING, or BEAVER DAM, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR crown-HALF T0 CLARENCE s. KNAUP, or BEAVER DAM, Wisconsin.

DRINKING-CUP FOR STOCK.

To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, BERNARD A. BELLING, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Beaver Dam, in the county of Dodge and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drinking- Cups for Stock; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear. and exact description thereof. 1

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in drinking cups for cattle or other stock and more particularly of that type comprising a cup connected with a valvemember for supplying water to the cup, and having pivoted therein a lever engageable by the nose of the animal in. seeking water inthe cup, for controlling the action of the valve to insure at all times an adequate supply of water for the cup.

It is in general the object of my invention to simplify and otherwise improve the construction and to increase the efficiency of devices of this character and the ease with which such devices may be manipulated for various purposes incidental to their use.

It is more particularly my object to provide a positiveand exceedingly simple valve mechanism cooperating with the operating lever, and a more detailedobject in this connection resides in theprovision of a packing for the valve engageable with the seat thereof which is of such nature that it may be replaced by a makeshift repair packing in contradistinction to the ball head type of packing commercially employed in devices of the present character. 7

A further object resides in the provision of an arrangement whereby the valve may be most readily rendered inoperative in conjunction with the lever by removing the connection between the valve and lever.

A further and important object resides in the provision of an improved removable mounting for the bowl, so arranged as to positively prevent removal of the bowl by the stock, yet most readily permitting removal when .desired.

A further objectin this connection resides in the provision of such a mounting wherein the bowl is normally supported by integral portions of the valve casting to procure a structure of maximum strength and durability.

A still further object resides inthepro-' vision of an improved clamp arrangement Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 1 11 29, 1920, Application filed January 6, 1919. Serial No. 269,843.

for mounting the device on a stanchion post or other support.

A still further object resides in the provision of an improved mounting for the lever, whereby the lever may be attached without the necessity of providing a pivot bolt therefor, and whereby the lever is positively held a ainst detachment when the bowl is mounte in place.

With the above and other objects and ad vantages in view, which will be apparent as the description proceeds, my invention re-, sides in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter more particularly described and defined by the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings: I

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved drinking cup. I

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the cup on the planes indicated by the broken line 3-3 of Fig. 1. i

Fig- 4c is a transverse sectional view through the valve on planes indicated by the broken line 4-4: of Fig. 3.

5 is a transverse sectional. view on a plane indicated by the line 55of Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view on a plane indicated by the line 6 6 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 7 is a detail elevational view of the lower end of the valve stem showing the connection of the end of the treadle therewith. I

Referring now. more iarticularly to the accompanying drawings, there is provided a head casting comprising a normally vertical tubular portion 10 having a forward extension at its upper end merging into a depending tubular valve casing portion 11, said valve casing portion thus forming a goose neck on the body portion 10 of the head casting, and being spaced from the ma- 3' or portion of the cup wall thus forming a recess within which. the valve casing portion of the head casting is housed. The cup is normally supported by engagement of the bottom of its offset wall portion 12 on an integral lug 15 projecting inwardly from the lower portion of the body member 10 of the head casting. Said offset wall portion 12 is also provided with upstanding lugs 16 engageable in sockets 17 in the sides of the body portion of the goose neck. The bottom of the offset portion of the cup is provided with depending lugs 18 at the sides of the supporting lug 15 of the head casting, thus in conjunction with the other interfitting parts of the body and bowl providing a positive lock against turning movement of the cup with respect to the body casting, and it is noted that inasmuch as the center of gravity of the cup is disposed a considerable distance outwardly of the head casting, the offset portion of: the cup is normally held on the seating lug 15. To firmly lock the cup against detachment such as might be procured by an animal nosing upwardly on the cup, the head member 10 of the body casting is provided below the lug 15 with an annular groove 19 and a bar 20 is bent to lie in the major portion of said groove, withits ends directed upwardly at 21 to interlock with the lugs 18. The looking bar 20 thus assumes a substantially U- shape, audit is held against accidental rotation by engagement of its upturned ends 21 with flanges 22 and 23 extending inwardly from the outer side portions of the lugs 18. The flange 23, it is noted is of lesser width than the flange 22, and the width of said flange 23 is such that upon a permitted slight upward movement of the cup, the locking bar may swing thereunder to thus free the bowl, the adjacent lug 18 being out away as shown particularly in Fig. 5 to permit this swinging movement of the locking bar.

Thus a positive safeguard against any accidental detachment of the bowl is provided, while to remove the bowl it is merely necessary to slightly lift the same and then swing the locking bar 20 to releasing position, upon which the bowl may be withdrawn from the head member by a tilting movement.

The device is secured to'a stanchion post 241 or other suitable support by a pair of clamp plates 25, each having its end portions bowed to partially embrace the support and the body member 10 of the head casting. The head casting is provided with outwardly extending lugs 26 which engage in vertical slots 27 in the clamp plates, to procure the positive interlocking engagement, and the clamp plates are drawn together in clamping relation to the support 24 and to the head casting by a bolt 27' passed through their intermediate portions.

Entering now into the valve structure of the head member, the valve portion 11 is closed at its bottom and provided with a depending tubular boss in which is formed an outlet port 28, and a valve seat thimble 29 preferably formed of brass is seated in the upper countersunk portion of this outlet port and coacts with a cylindrical packing member 30 seated in a valve member 31 of inverted cup-shape and having an upstanding stem 32 about which is coiled an expansile spring 33 which bearsagainst said valve member and against the recessed inner portion of a plug 341 threaded in the top of the goose neck, the opening for this lug permitting assembly and disassembly o. the valve member, and said plug also obviously serves as an adjustment for the tension of the spring 33 which urges the valve member to closing position. The lever plate 35 is of the usual skeleton form to fit within the lower portion of the cup 13, and said plate is carried by an arm 36 extending into the recessed portion of the cup. This plate carrying arm 36 is provided intermediately with upstanding bosses 37 apertured to provide pivot bearings for outstanding pintles 38 carried by a lug extending from the bottom of the valve casing portion 11, said pintles 38 being oblong in cross section and adapted to pass through slots 39 in the bearing lugs 37 when the lever is tilted to a substantially vertical position. The treadle is prevented from moving to this position when the bowl is in place, by abutment of the inner end of the arm 36 with the bottom of the oiiset portion of the bowl. The inner end of the arm 36 is straddled by the bifurcated lower end of a fluted pin 10, which is slidable in the discharge port of the valve casing portion and which has its upper end reduced for engagement in a central opening of the valve packing member 30, the shoulder formed by the reduction of the upper end of the valve pin abutting the packing to insure its retention in the cup-shaped valve member. The lower on d of the body member 10 of the head casting is threaded for the reception of a sup ply pipe 11. Thus, when a cow or other animal presses the plate 35 downwardly, the valve will be opened to insure an adequate supply of water at all times, the various parts described coacting to produce a most simple, durable and eificient mechanism. To render the valve mechanism inoperative without detaching the lever, or resorting to the necessity of propping the lever up, it is merely necessary to remove the valve pin 40, and this may be readily accomplished by removing the bowl in the convenient mannerheretofore described, and then swinging the lever upwardly to free the pin, after which the lever is released and the bowl replaced. Access may be most readily had to the valve by unscrewing the plug 34, and it is particularly noted that while the commercial packing member 30 is preferable, it may be neces sary. on the farm to provide an emergency repair substitute for this packing, which in my device may be formed without the necessary exercise of any particular skill, it being merely necessary to fill the cup 31 .with packing and preferably to provide a frictional holding of the pin 40 by said packing.

\Vhat is claimed is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a body member adapted for secure? ment to a support and having a portion depending from its upper end and spaced therefrom, a drinking cup having its'upper edgedisposed between" said body memher and depending portion, cooperating supporting means on the cup and body member, said cooperating supporting means being disengageableby tilting said cup, whereby to disconnect the latter from the body member, and means shiftable into engagement with the under side of said cup adjacent the body member to prevent such tilting movement.

2. A device of the class described comprising a body member adapted for secure ment to a support and having a portion depending from its upper end and spaced therefrom, a drinking cup having its up per edge disposed between said body member and depending portion, means on said body member for supporting the cup, the latter being disei'igaged from the supporting means by tilting the same, and a member rotatably carried by the body member and having a lug movable beneath the cup and engageable with the under side thereof adjacent the body member to prevent such tilting movement.

3. A device of the class described comprising a body member adapted for securement to a support and having a po tion depending from its upper end and spaced therefrom, a drinking cup having its upper edge disposed between said body member and depending portion, a projection on the lower portion of the body member, the bottom of the drinking cup being seated thereon, a pair of spaced lugs on the bottom of said drinking cup to receive said projection therebetwecn, depending flanges on said drinking cup, one of said flanges being of greater width than the other, and a member rotatably carried by the body member and having an upstanding portion movable be tween said flanges, said drinkingcup having slight upward movement to provide clearance of the rotatable member under the flange of lesser width.

4. A device of the class described including a body member adapted for securement to a support, a valve casing connected with the body member at its upper portion, said valve casing being spaced from the body member, a drinking cup having its wall engageable between said valve casing and the body member, a projection on the lower portion of the body member adapted to seat said drinking cup, said drinking cup having tilting movement to disengage the same from the projection, and a member rotatable on the lower portion of the body member and having an upwardly extended portion adapted for interlocking engagement with the bottom of the drinking cup when seated on theprojection to prevent tilting movement of said cup and conse quent removal of the Wall of the same from between the valve casing and body member. 5. A device of the class described in cluding a body member adapted for securement to a support, a valve casing connected with the body member at its upper portion, said valve casing being spaced. from the body member, a drinking cup having its wall engageable between said valve casing and the body member, depending flanges on said drinking cup, one of said flanges being of greater width than the other, and a member rotatably carried by the lower portion of the body member and having an upstanding portion engageable between'said flanges, said drinking cup having upward movement from the support to provide clearance of said locking member under the flange of lesser width.

6. A device of the class described including a support, a valve casing carried thereby, a port extending through the bottom of the casing, a drinking cup receiving the valve casing and detachably connectedv with the support, a valve member in the casing, a valve stem extending through the port, a pivot ear on the lower portion of the valve casing, outstanding vertically elongated pintles on said pivot car, a lever, hearing lugs on the intermediate portion of the lever apertured to receive said pintles and provided with slots communicating with their apertures and permitting passage of the pintles therethrough in upwardly raised position of the lever, said lever being normally engageable with the valve stem.

7. A device of the class described including a support, a valve casing carried thereby, a port extending through the bottom of the casing, a drinking cup receiving the valve casing and detachably connected with the support, a valve member in the casing, a valve stem extending through the port, a pivot ear on the lower portion of the valve casing, outstanding vertically elongated pintles on said pivot ear, a lever, hearing lugs on the intermediate portion of the lever apertured to receive said pintles and provided with slots communicating with their apertures and permitting passage of the pintles therethrough in upwardly raised position of the lever, said lever being normally engageable with the valve stem, the inner end of the lever being engageable with the bottom portion of the drinking cup to prevent detachment of the lever.

8. A device of the class described inport, a valve member normally engaged with sald seat and resiliently urged thereagainst,

an independent valve stem inserted through said port to engage said valve member, and a lever pivoted to the valve casing and having one end normally engaged with the outer end of the valve stem to retain the same in said port, such stern being adapted to drop from the valve easing when the lever is disengaged therefrom to prevent operation of the valve member.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 10 have hereunto set my hand at Beaver Dam, in the county of Dodge and State of Wisconsin.

BERNARD A. BELLING. 

